ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the unanticipated outcome of the air campaign, the American and Hungarian responses to it and the numerous moral and psychological questions it has raised. Political affiliation and prior stands taken often did not predict the attitudes toward US involvement. One could find among the critics of NATO intervention such otherwise dissonant political-intellectual figures as Patrick Buchanan, Jimmy Carter, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Hayden, David Horowitz, Jack Kemp, and Trent Lott. Despite its unexpected success many mistakes were made in the way NATO and the US chose to conduct the war. The NATO policy prevailed: Milosevich withdrew his forces, NATO troops entered Kosovo and the refugees did return. Unresolved issues remain including the future status of Kosovo as well as the survival of the Milosevich regime; a variety of moral, political and historical questions are also left behind deserving further attention.
